{"id":27621,"date":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=27621"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:46:00","slug":"pasolini-tutto-e-santo-il-corpo-politico","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/pasolini-tutto-e-santo-il-corpo-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasolini Tutto \u00e8 santo Il corpo politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The volume subtitled <em>Il corpo politico<\/em>\u00a0[<em>The Political Body <\/em>] accompanies the exhibition held at MAXXI in Rome, chronologically speaking the last of the three shows in the project <em>Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto \u00e8 santo<\/em>. The interpretative key to the works exhibited in this venue, and consequently the common leitmotif of this volume, is Pasolini\u2019s political engagement as well as the analysis of the social content expressed by the writer in the works he made in 1975, the year of his death. Texts, images, movies, notes, and documents will be the narrative device necessary to recount the beginning of a protest that has endured to this day, its modern interpretation unfolding through the works of the contemporary artists exhibited at the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The essay by Anne Violaine Houcke analyzes Pasolini\u2019s final period, while Ara Merjan\u2019s text deals with his esthetics. Marco Belpoliti explores the 1975 timeline, giving special attention to the political events most closely connected to Pasolini.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Violaine Houcke<\/strong> is an art historian. Her work focuses on contemporary depictions of Antiquity, especially the audiovisual production of Fellini and Pasolini. She has taught at Yale, Pisa, and Rome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ara Merjian<\/strong> teaches Italian Studies at New York University. Among his subjects of interest are Pasolini and Italian esthetics and politics in the aftermath of WWII.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marco Belpoliti<\/strong> is a writer, literary critic, and university professor. He also writes for the daily paper <em>La Repubblica<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rome, MAXXI | November 16, 2022 \u2013 March 12, 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PIER PAOLO PASOLINI. TUTTO \u00c8 SANTO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5 Continents Editions is the publishing partner of an important series of exhibitions: <em>Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto \u00e8 Santo <\/em>(<em>Everything Is Sacred<\/em>). This project will involve three different museums in Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Palazzo Barberini, and Museo MAXXI. Its goal is to explore a theme dear to Pasolini\u2014sacredness\u2014with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a writer, director, and artist.<\/p>\n<p>This important project, the title of which refers to a quote from the movie <em>Medea<\/em> (1969) in which the wise Chiron speaks of the mysterious sacredness of the world (of the world of the archaic, deeply religious underclass as opposed to the heroes of the rational, laic, bourgeois world), will be a conclusion to the year of celebrations organized on the occasion of the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s birth (Bologna, March 5, 1922 \u2013 Rome, November 2, 1975).<\/p>\n<p>Each venue will adopt a specific approach, using different media, themes, original works, and archive documents, with the awareness of being part of a broader perspective that has the purpose of introducing an unprecedented reflection on Pasolini\u2019s production and the cultural influence he exerted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volume subtitled Il corpo politico\u00a0[The Political Body ] accompanies the exhibition held at MAXXI in Rome, chronologically speaking the last of the three shows in the project Pier Paolo Pasolini. 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